The House That Jon Stewart Built–The Atlantic

February 12, 2015

“For most of his 15-year tenure helming The Daily Show, Jon Stewart had a rogues’ gallery worthy of the name: A buffoonish, chuckling George W. Bush, a sinister Dick Cheney whose hunting mishap Stewart never forgot, Donald Trump and his bizarre habit of eating pizza with a fork, Jim Cramer and the false prophets of CNBC who failed to predict the Great Recession, an endless stream of Fox News anchors and pundits, and countless others. Politics itself had become comical, and Stewart rode the wave.”